Station House

SK 99 NW KIRTON IN LINDSEY STATION YARD (north side)

6/36 Station House -

GV II

Railway station and station-master's house, now house. 1849 for Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, with later extension and platform canopy. Yellow brick front, red brick sides and rear, with ashlar dressings. State roof. 'T-shaped on plan. Platform front: 1 and 2 storeys, 6 bays. 2-storey 2-bay central section with projecting bay containing ticket office, flanked by one-bay single-storey wing to left containing porter's lodge and 3-bay single-storey waiting room to right. Single-storey extension set back to left. Quoins. Entrance in angle of ticket office has pair of plain doors and radial fanlight beneath round-headed brick arch. Entrances to wings have part-glazed doors and fanlights in round-headed rusticated surrounds; radial fanlight to porter's lodge, plain fanlight to waiting room. Front of ticket office has Venetian window with ashlar mullions and moulded arch. Round-headed sash to left in rusticated surround with cill on brackets. 2 similar windows to first floor. All windows are sashes with glazing bars, (those to waiting room damaged and incomplete). Plain ashlar eaves cornioe, interrupted by canopy, and returned across gable ends of wings. Decorative bargeboard to projecting central section. Axial and end stacks with ashlar cornices. Round-headed sash to right return in rusticated surround. Rear, facing Station Yard: rendered projecting central section has round-headed entrance with part-glazed door, radial fanlight and side lights in ashlar surround; windows similar to front, with sashes to waiting room and C20 casements elsewhere. Waiting room disused at time of re-survey.

Listing NGR: SK9343499648